In the past I've always sent one out in advance telling people what will happen. I've never encouraged people to put effort in until accepted.
Sent from my mobile device. On 7 Mar 2011, at 19:08, Norman Maurer <nor...@apache.org> wrote: > Yeah sure.. I thought such a message only goes out after the ASF is > accepted. I will try todo some research on this in the archives ( to see how > this was handled the years before). > > Bye, > Norman > > > 2011/3/7 Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> > >> I think we should prepare a message to committers@ announcing GSoC 2011 >> and how we plan to mark tasks. >> >> Uli >> >> On 07.03.2011 18:24, Kathey Marsden wrote: >>> On 3/7/2011 2:18 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: >>>> >>>> Does your organization have an application template you would like to >> see >>>> students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a >> very >>>> good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact information >> as >>>> part of your template. Their contact details will not be shared with you >>>> automatically via the GSoC 2011 site. >>>> >>> I think in the past we have had a general template that had things like >> name, contact information, >>> abstract, detail timeline, and also asked how much time the student would >> be committing during the >>> summer and what other commitments they had. I think it is good to have a >> free format but provide a >>> template to make sure that such important information is included. >>> >>> http://s.apache.org/gsoc2011tasks >>> >>> For the project ideas page, we only have three so far which might make us >> look a bit week. Perhaps >>> send a clear message to this list and also code-awards to clarify how >> they are to be marked. There >>> may be some confusion there. >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Kathey >>> >>
